1/3/2023 0 Comments Papers please passport front![]() ![]() Thus, the National Guard suggestions it exists today and can be mobilized within 30 days. That, however will take years to achieve. He is also “ordering” 10,000 new immigration agents. Is this the “deportation force” candidate Trump proclaimed on MSNBC in November 2015? Trump: “You’re going to have a deportation force.” The memorandum, the plan and policy it outlines fits President Trump’s entire Presidential campaign. Army and Airforce to enforce civilian laws? The question is: Does this memo’s suggestion of the National Guard violate the Posse Comitatus law (1878) that prohibits the use of the U.S. Extensive research on “Operation Wetback” concludes that at the very most, 342 people-a-day were deported over the two year-long program. The INS itself never claimed those numbers. He said that the “Operation” deported 1.5 million people, that “some even think it was 2.3 million.” He gave no source. Trump claimed on Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News program that he would “deport” 11 million illegally present people - mostly Mexicans – within the first “18 months” of his Presidency. Until, that is, Presidential candidate Donald J. Most Americans had no idea that anything named “Operation Wetback” ever existed. Thus, retired Army General Joseph Swing, President Eisenhower’s West Point classmate could name his efforts to deport illegal aliens from Mexico– “Operation Wetback.”ĭirector of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Swing also felt at ease to dissemble his organization’s “success” by claiming in agency-issued press releases that besides the “50,000” (divided by 730 days, 68 people a day) it had actually deported, “480,000 illegal migrants fearing arrest had fled the country.” Political Correctness as we know it today didn’t exist in 1953 but “fake news” did. Nonetheless, though it may not be policy today, the memo exits, therefore it is. So reports the Associated Press/New York Times so denies the White House. New York Times quotes the memo: the Guard is “particularly well suited to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law and augment border security operations by department components.” Floating around President Trump’s Administration is a memorandum suggesting how 100,000 federally-funded National Guard troops in 11 states could be used to find, arrest and deport up to 11 million people residing illegally in the U.S. ![]()
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